‘Gathering (Versammeln) comes to play in the place in the sense of the releasing sheltering of things in their region.
And the region? The older form of the word runs ‘that-which-regions’ (die Gegnet).
It names the free expanse. Through it the openness is urged to let each thing merge in its resting in itself. This means at the same time: preserving, i.e., the gathering of things in their belonging together.’
‘The interplay of art and space would have to be thought from out of the experience of place and region.’
Martin Heidegger, ‘Art and Space’
Translated by Charles H. Seibert
Loras College